Rihanna was the special guest at Top Dawg Entertainment’s 4th Annual TDE and Friends Holiday Concert in Watts, Los Angeles today. The label imprint hosted their fourth annual toy drive in Watts, where artists put on a free concert for fans who brought toys and donated items to the community’s underprivileged youth.

Rihanna performed a medley of Loyalty, Lemon, Wild Thoughts and BBHMM joined by Kendrick Lamar. Watch a few videos below and head over to our gallery for photos.

After the show Rihanna continued the night out with a Fenty Corp Christmas dinner and a Jay-Z concert in LA.

Performing at TDE Holiday Concert

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Ocean’s 8 – Every con has its pros. Starring Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, with Rihanna and Helena Bonham Carter. In theaters June 8th, 2018.

HD screen shots of the trailer and HQ promo shots can all be found in our Ocean’s 8 category!

Billboard has announced its Year End Charts, and Rihanna is very much everywhere on it. Although ANTI released last year, it still holds a high place at #23, making it the best female album of the year and the 2nd best female artist of the year!

Rihanna’s collaborations with DJ Khaled, Kendrick Lamar and the successful dance remixes from ANTI have given her spots on almost every list. Check out the entire list below, courtesy of Paula writing it all together.

Rihanna:

#1 – Dance Club Songs Artists

#2 – Top Artists – Female

#3 – R&B Digital Songs Artists

#5 – R&B Streaming Songs Artists

#6 – R&B Albums Artists

#6 – Hot R&B Songs Artists

#7 – R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay Artists

#8 – R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Songs Artists

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Pantone has announced the color for 2018 – Ultra Violet.

Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, told the New York Times that Ultra Violet is “also the most complex of all colors, because it takes two shades that are seemingly diametrically opposed — blue and red — and brings them together to create something new.”

“We are living in complex times,” she said. “We’re seeing the fear of going forward and how people are reacting to that fear.”

“It’s a color that can be worn by so many different skin tones,” Pressman said.

So who wears it best? Rihanna, Pressman said. Particularly, Rihanna in a 2016 Dior ad with gorgeous violet lips and purple-tinted sunglasses.

“When you think of this color she perfectly sums up the originality, the inventiveness, the forward thinking, the nonconformity,” Pressman said. “The exploration, the expression, the do your own thing. She thinks about things differently than anybody else. No boundaries.”

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Congratulations to Fenty Beauty for winning “Launch Of The Year” in the Prestige Sector at the WWD Beauty Inc Awards 2017! Check out Rihanna’s thank you note on instagram, using our edit!

Rihanna is the most streamed female performer of the year globally on Spotify, followed by Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez. This is the third year in a row that Rihanna tops the list.

Most Streamed Female Artists
#1 Rihanna
#2 Taylor Swift
#3 Selena Gomez
#4 Ariana Grande
#5 Sia

Make sure to follow Rihanna on Spotify! Read more about the list here.

Grateful and honoured. That was Rihanna’s reaction to the renaming of her childhood neighbourhood to Rihanna Drive and the conferral of the title of Cultural Ambassador last night.

“I couldn’t be more honoured to have the street that I was raised on, the street that I grew up on, the street . . . my dreams were born on this very street here and I know that saying ‘believe in your dreams’, it sounds cliché but, I guarantee you, the only thing that got me here was believing my dreams,” Rihanna declared to screams yesterday.

Dressed in a gold deconstructed shirtdress and matching purse from the Jacquemeus spring-summer 2018 collection, the entertainer, actress and businesswoman took the spotlight in a ceremony that started an hour and 40 minutes late under stormy afternoon skies.

Her arrival and that of Prime Minister Freundel Stuart were heralded by a bugle fanfare and she was greeted by a flag-bearing guard of honour of cadets from Combermere School. She later chatted with Charles F. Broome Memorial School’s head boy Alique Marshall and head girl Anya Walcott, who presented her with a bouquet of flowers and a plaque.

Noting that she still thought of it as Westbury New Road, the 29-year-old singer said she could not be more grateful “for a day like this”.

She credited the people of Westbury New Road with making her into the woman that she now was.

“Special thanks to all my neighbours in Westbury New Road who had a hand in raising me and the woman that I am and the discipline that I have. I am very grateful for that kind of backbone. I believe that I was here for a reason,” she said.

The songbird said she never doubted her dreams would come true and urged young men and women to believe in their dreams.

“I didn’t know how it was going to happen. I know I was hidden away on this little rock Barbados, how would anybody find me but I always knew it would happen. I always focused on the result and that kind of faith. It really was just faith.”

She added it was that faith that got her through doubt and times of discouragement.

“It is the thing that I go back to, having faith in God. And I want to encourage not just the people of Westbury New Road and the Westbury community, but all of the people in Barbados, all the young women and young men who have dreams and think that the world is up against them, it is possible,” she said.

The event was attended by the who’s who of Barbados, including Chief Justice Sir Marston Gibson, Opposition Leader Mia Mottley, Cave Hill Campus principal, Professor Eudine Barriteau, MP for the area Michael Carrington, Minister of Tourism Richard Sealy, Minister of Culture Stephen Lashley, other politicians and noted entertainers Gabby, Red Plastic Bag and Richard Stoute. The event, which included the unveiling of a signpost and a sign board, culminated with a street party after Prime Minister Stuart and Rihanna viewed the symbol that was embedded into the pavement outside Rihanna’s former home.

Unveiling of Rihanna Drive

Preparation of Rihanna Drive